"New Song" or "spiritual song". This says nothing about "traditional" versus "contemporary", or "rock" being the "old song", and "old hymns" being "new" or "spiritual". For some people, rock may be their "old song", but then there are plenty of unbelievers in the world who listen to "traditional"; especially in the past, when that sound was in style, and secular songs matched the sound of the hymns ("Drink to Me only With Thine Eyes", national anthhems, etc). There were unbelievers who listened to that, and that would be their "old song", if we were to take that verse this way. The type of music David and others worshipped to was mideastern and very rhythmic! "New/old" and "spiritual" is not about a STYLE or rhythm, or even a "physical response". Once again, this is Platonism. You have not even identified any sin in that statement. You just assume that any "physical response" is automatically bad. And traditional hymns can have a physical reaction as well. "To God be the Glory" with its lively 3/4 time tends to make me tap. And the other songs, but virtue of making you sit stiffly; that is a "physical reaction" as well, albeit a negative one.
As for BJU, I'm sure you remember the issue about the dating rule during the 2000 presidential campaign. That was supposedly a "recognition of diofference", but it was supposedly based on 2 Cor.6:14, and several OT verses about Israel and its "separation". And those verses are talking about more than just mere "difference". "Unbelievers", "Heathen" etc. what does that have to do with one race or another? It must have come from a time where one race was considered "heathen", though that had been subsequently cleaned up. But nobody even though of it, yet kept using the verses to justify the policy. Then, he grudgingly ended it. And I had joined in discussions on the College Talk board back then, where several students from there mentioned a lot of the stuff the Sr. and Jr. BJ's used to say on race (Whoever is against segregation is against God, etc). The way it always happens, is that they come under fire for this stuff, then tone it down, (and then get mad at the "liberal" media and "politically correct" society for exposing them) but elements still remain, such as the dating rule and music teaching. No, most people do not consciously "feel superior", but then neither do they realize that many of these teachings still do insinuate superiority. I mean, just about all we have heard from many of these fundamentalists, as well as other conservatives, politically, is about how great America, or Western civilization, or capitalism, or "our godly culture before those liberals, atheists, commies and rock musicians destroyed it", or "our Churches before those rebels brought in that jungle beat and other compromises" are. Nobody realizes that all of this is the language of "superiority". Of course, it is not just racial, but political, cultural and moral as well. But it's all the same thing, all about ME and my "extended self" (all of those institutions I uphold and associate with). While pointing out at everyone else today and their "self" orientation, they forget that they srte still human, and have the same self-exalting nature, that likes to think of onesself as "better" in whatever way it can.
This is something I an planning to write an article or something on to have published (rather than putting it up as a website). On one hand, people wonder why race keeps being brought up, but when people are self-exalting, then that wil include their race, and it does come out, even if not consciously. On the other hand, some do focus on race too much, not realizing the the underlying issue of human self-exaltation that drives any race issue, but also comes out in other areas that also need to be addressed. Even King and Malcolm X in their latter years started realizing that class was becoming an issue, and not just race. This is significant to me particularly after the NY transit strike which I was involved in last winter (and which is currently in court now), where people take sides, with conservatives bashing "union thugs" as undeserving and wanting too much, but ignoring the corruption in upper management (which is seen as "hard working" and therefore "deserving"). Workers on the other hand focus on management so much, they gloss over the the ways they do try to get over, which gives management excuses to do some of the things they do.
Anyway, the point is this segment of Christianity has focused so much on what the contemporary church and society is doing wrong; they seemingly have never repented of the errors of their traditions. They have never even acknowledged them. They just tone down the rhetoric when they come under fire for it, and soon, the original meaning is forgotten. How can they see clearly how to judge music when their vision is clouded by stuff like those cultural issues? They simply read it all into the scriptures, when those passages say nothing of the sort.
As for BJU, I'm sure you remember the issue about the dating rule during the 2000 presidential campaign. That was supposedly a "recognition of diofference", but it was supposedly based on 2 Cor.6:14, and several OT verses about Israel and its "separation". And those verses are talking about more than just mere "difference". "Unbelievers", "Heathen" etc. what does that have to do with one race or another? It must have come from a time where one race was considered "heathen", though that had been subsequently cleaned up. But nobody even though of it, yet kept using the verses to justify the policy. Then, he grudgingly ended it. And I had joined in discussions on the College Talk board back then, where several students from there mentioned a lot of the stuff the Sr. and Jr. BJ's used to say on race (Whoever is against segregation is against God, etc). The way it always happens, is that they come under fire for this stuff, then tone it down, (and then get mad at the "liberal" media and "politically correct" society for exposing them) but elements still remain, such as the dating rule and music teaching. No, most people do not consciously "feel superior", but then neither do they realize that many of these teachings still do insinuate superiority. I mean, just about all we have heard from many of these fundamentalists, as well as other conservatives, politically, is about how great America, or Western civilization, or capitalism, or "our godly culture before those liberals, atheists, commies and rock musicians destroyed it", or "our Churches before those rebels brought in that jungle beat and other compromises" are. Nobody realizes that all of this is the language of "superiority". Of course, it is not just racial, but political, cultural and moral as well. But it's all the same thing, all about ME and my "extended self" (all of those institutions I uphold and associate with). While pointing out at everyone else today and their "self" orientation, they forget that they srte still human, and have the same self-exalting nature, that likes to think of onesself as "better" in whatever way it can.
This is something I an planning to write an article or something on to have published (rather than putting it up as a website). On one hand, people wonder why race keeps being brought up, but when people are self-exalting, then that wil include their race, and it does come out, even if not consciously. On the other hand, some do focus on race too much, not realizing the the underlying issue of human self-exaltation that drives any race issue, but also comes out in other areas that also need to be addressed. Even King and Malcolm X in their latter years started realizing that class was becoming an issue, and not just race. This is significant to me particularly after the NY transit strike which I was involved in last winter (and which is currently in court now), where people take sides, with conservatives bashing "union thugs" as undeserving and wanting too much, but ignoring the corruption in upper management (which is seen as "hard working" and therefore "deserving"). Workers on the other hand focus on management so much, they gloss over the the ways they do try to get over, which gives management excuses to do some of the things they do.
Anyway, the point is this segment of Christianity has focused so much on what the contemporary church and society is doing wrong; they seemingly have never repented of the errors of their traditions. They have never even acknowledged them. They just tone down the rhetoric when they come under fire for it, and soon, the original meaning is forgotten. How can they see clearly how to judge music when their vision is clouded by stuff like those cultural issues? They simply read it all into the scriptures, when those passages say nothing of the sort.
